Open AccessThe influence of glycemia on the left ventricular diastolic function in patients with arterial hypertension
Author(s) -
Suzana Milutinovic,
Radovan Karadžić
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0802071m
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , isovolumetric contraction , diabetes mellitus , diastole , diabetic cardiomyopathy , blood pressure , cardiomyopathy , heart failure , endocrinology
Arterial hypertension is a disease which has influence on the left ventricular diastolic function. It has been suggested that impairment of the left ventricular diastolic function in patients with diabetes mellitus is due to arterial hypertension and diffuse peripherial and coronary atherosclerosis which appear early in diabetic patients. Now, however, it is thought, that other mechanisms are responsable for the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of glycemia on the left ventricular diastolic function in patients with arterial hypertension.